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    British patients test world’s first personalised MRNA cancer jab for melanoma

    by Athena Stavrou Apr 26, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

    The world’s first personalised mRNA cancer jab for melanoma – which also has the potential to stop lung, bladder and kidney cancer – is being tested in British patients.

    The “gamechanger” jab works by telling the body to hunt down cancer cells to prevent the deadly disease from coming back and is custom-built for each person in just a few weeks.

    A stage 2 trial of the jab, involving pharmaceutical firms Moderna and MSD, found it dramatically reduced the risk of the cancer returning in melanoma patients.

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